Hong Kong's top court on Thursday dismissed a bid to overturn the 2022 conviction and sentence of jailed pro-democracy activist Tam Tak-chi under a colonial-era sedition law.
Hong Kong investors to bail out Star
Chow Tai Fook Enterprises and Far East Consortium will take control of the struggling casino group’s Brisbane precinct under the plans.
2 Filipinos arrested in HK for trying to withdraw $10 billion
Two Filipinos in Hong Kong have been arrested after attempting to withdraw $10 billion from an HSBC branch using fake documents.
Some shipping firms pulling back from Hong Kong to skirt US-China risks
Despite an influx of Chinese-operated ships onto Hong Kong’s registry, the number of oceangoing vessels flagged in the city fell more than 8 per cent to 2,366 in January from 2,580 four years earlier, ...
Hong Kong’s Top Court Quashes Convictions of Pro-Democracy Tiananmen Group
HONG KONG (Reuters) -Hong Kong's top court unanimously overturned on Thursday the convictions of three former members of a pro-democracy group that organised an annual candlelight vigil to mark ...
Top Hong Kong court overturns convictions of 3 former organizers of Tiananmen vigils
Hong Kong’s top court has overturned the convictions of three former organizers of an annual vigil in remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown over their refusal to provide information to ...
Shipping firms pull back from Hong Kong to skirt US-China risks
Some shipping companies are discreetly moving operations out of Hong Kong and taking vessels off its flag registry. Others are making contingency plans to do so.
Hong Kong court reverses convictions of 3 ex-organisers of Tiananmen vigils
Three former organisers of Hong Kong's annual vigil in remembrance of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown won their bid at the top court on Thursday to overturn their conviction over their refusal to ...
Hong Kong investors to bail out Australia’s Star Entertainment, AFR reports
CASINO operator Star Entertainment will dispose of its Brisbane-based casino and save itself from going into voluntary administration under a new deal with its Hong Kong investors, the Australian ...
Bank of China International Makes Cuts to Commodities Unit
Bank of China International Holdings Ltd., the investment banking arm of the giant Chinese state-owned lender, is pulling back from commodities after wild price moves over the past few years shook ...
HSBC renames ‘eastern’ and ‘western’ businesses months after creating them
HSBC has renamed its “eastern markets” and “western markets” business sections, within months of creating them, after the branding prompted renewed speculation that the bank might formally split along ...
HSBC HOLDINGS Repurchases Nearly 6.13M Shares Yesterday, Totaling HKD565M
HSBC HOLDINGS (00005.HK) announced that it had repurchased a total of 6.1284 million shares of the company in the UK and Hong Kong markets on March 5, involving a total of HKD565 million. Of this, ...
MPs under mounting pressure to launch probe into HSBC savings scandal
Campaigners are demanding executives answer questions about withholding nearly £1bn from people who fled to escape a crackdown.
‘AI startups boosting nation’s development’
An analyst on Thursday said the advent of artificial intelligence startups such as DeepSeek has been a boon to the nation’s technological ...